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US judge bars disgraced Turkish Lobbyist Ex-House speaker Dennis Hastert from being alone with children

December 13, 2017 By administrator

Part of the photo, This file photo taken on October 27, 2015 shows,surrounded by US Marshals, former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert as he leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by AFP)

A US federal judge has ordered that Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the US House of Representatives in Congress, never be left alone with anyone under 18 unless another adult is present who is aware of his conviction related to child sex abuse.

In his ruling on Tuesday from Chicago, US District Judge Thomas Durkin also ordered Hastert to install software that records all his computer activity, from browser history to email correspondence and internet chats.

The judge didn’t explain why the new restrictions on Hastert were called for now, three months into his two-year period of supervised release from prison.

Durkin sentenced Hastert, once one of the country’s most powerful politicians, to 15 months in prison in May 2016 for a financial crime linked to sexual abuse of boys.

Durkin described the former congressman as “a serial child molester” during the sentencing.

Hastert, 75, is America’s longest-serving Republican House speaker from 1999 to 2007 and the highest-ranking politician in US history to have gone to prison.

Hastert pleaded guilty in 2015 to violating banking rules as he sought to pay $3.5 million to a victim referred to only as Individual A to keep him quiet about the sex abuse.

Hastert couldn’t be charged with sexual abuse because statutes of limitation had long since expired.

Among the conditions Durkin set during sentencing in 2016 was that Hastert undergo intensive sex-offender treatment, which is designed to gauge the risk molesters still pose to children.

One common treatment for sex-offenders involves a penile plethysmograph, which gauges a known molester’s physical reaction to specific images.

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BREAKING NEWS Turkey’ Lobbyist Dennis Hastert got a 15-month prison sentence in a case tied to a sexual abuse coverup

April 27, 2016 By administrator

Dennis hastertWednesday, April 27, 2016 12:59 PM EDT
J. Dennis Hastert, once among this nation’s most powerful politicians, was sentenced for illegally structuring bank transactions in an effort to cover up his sexual abuse of young members of a wrestling team he coached decades ago.
“The defendant is a serial child molester,” said Judge Thomas M. Durkin, of Federal District Court, in a tough rebuke of the former House speaker before issuing his sentence. He added, “Nothing is more stunning than having ‘serial child molester’ and ‘Speaker of the House’ in the same sentence.”

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Turkish Lobbyist Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert abused 4 boys, prosecutors say

April 9, 2016 By administrator

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By Faith Karimi, CNN

(CNN)Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert sexually abused at least four boys when he worked as a wrestling coach at a high school in Illinois decades ago, federal prosecutors said.

In documents released Friday, prosecutors detailed stunning allegations against Hastert, the longest-running Republican speaker of the House.

The revelation comes days before his April 27 sentencing in a financial violation case. He pleaded guilty last year to structuring money transactions to evade reporting where he took massive amounts of funds he was withdrawing.

Investigators said the transactions involved $3.5 million he paid in hush money to one of his accusers.

Prosecutors listed four boys Hastert allegedly abused when he coached at a high school in Yorkville, Illinois.

An additional one — a fifth student — died years later, according to the document.

Accuser allegedly paid off

The accusations came to light after investigators found out he was paying an ex-student to stay quiet about sexual abuse allegations, prosecutors allege.

The student was among four others who told investigators he abused them, including one who was 14 at the time, the documents allege.

The allegations date to the 1960s and 1970s, according to the prosecutors’ court filing.

Hastert will not face sexual abuse charges because the statutes of limitation have expired.

Massages, sex acts alleged

All those who accused him of sexual abuse were wrestlers at the high school, according to the documents.

In two separate cases, Hastert massaged one boy each in a locker room and performed unspecified sexual acts on them, prosecutors allege.

In another instance, he allegedly massaged a boy’s groin area and singled him out to stay in his hotel room during a wrestling camp.

Another accuser said Hastert touched him inappropriately in a “very weird” way while he was a student, prosecutors said.

“The actions at the core of this case took place not on the defendant’s national public stage but in his private one-on-one encounters in an empty locker room and a motel room with minors that violated the special trust between those young boys and their coach,” prosecutors said.

During his time at Yorkville High School, Hastert was a beloved coach. He was named Illinois coach of the year after leading the wrestling team to the state championship.

Apology

In a statement Saturday afternoon, an attorney for Hastert, Thomas Green, said the former speaker “acknowledges that as a young man he committed transgressions for which he is profoundly sorry.”

“He earnestly apologizes to his former students, family, friends, previous constituents and all others affected by the harm his actions have caused,” the statement said.

Green added that Hastert has already suffered “profound humiliation and public shaming” and is in poor health.

“He accepts responsibility for his conduct, seeks no special consideration, and is prepared to receive the court’s sentence,” Green said.

Before details of the sexual abuse allegations came to light, Hastert apologized this week for an unspecified misconduct.

“Mr. Hastert is deeply sorry and apologizes for his misconduct that occurred decades ago and the resulting harm he caused to others,” his attorneys wrote. “He will stand before the court having deteriorated both physically and emotionally, undoubtedly in part due to public shaming and humiliation of an unprecedented degree.”

As he awaits sentencing in the financial misconduct, Hastert was hospitalized with various ailments late last year, including a stroke and sepsis. His attorneys have asked for probation instead of jail time in the financial case.

Hastert served as the Republican speaker of the House between 1999-2007

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Turkish Lobbyist DENNIS HASTERT PROSECUTORS WANT UP TO 6 MONTHS IN PRISON

April 8, 2016 By administrator

Dennis hestert(abc7chicago.com) The government’s pre sentencing memo divulges fresh details about the sexual misconduct underpinnings of the Hastert case – including the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy. (WLS)

CHICAGO (WLS) —

Prosecutors in a hush money case against ex-U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert are asking that a judge decide whether to put the former, powerful Illinois congressman in prison.

READ: Hastert sentencing memo from prosecutors

The government’s presentencing memo filed Friday night does divulge fresh details about the sexual misconduct underpinnings of the Hastert case – including the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy who was a wrestler on a team Hastert coached.

A veil of secrecy over the Hastert case has resulted in cloak and dagger efforts by legal observers and news organizations to determine why the former House Speaker had crafted a deal to pay $3.5 million to keep persons quiet about past misconduct.

Mr. Hastert pleaded guilty only to breaking banking laws and not to sexual misconduct or crimes that reveal the nature of the personal transgressions. He will be sentenced April 27 by District Judge Thomas M. Durkin in Chicago. Judge Durkin will determine a prison sentence of between zero and six months.

Hastert’s plea agreement with the government he once served called for that amount of prison time-no more than six months. There had been speculation by court watchers that prosecutors would ask for little or no time behind bars considering his health and lack of criminal history. Tonight’s court filing puts the decision on the judge, and asks for a period of court supervision as a sex offender regardless of whether he actually does jail time.

Prosecutors and Judge Durkin last month confirmed at a hearing in Chicago that the fundamental allegations against Hastert relate to sexual abuse. Other than that, from the beginning of what Hastert attorney’s describe as a tremendous fall from glory, there has been no official intonation explaining why any of it happened.

As the I-Team reported this week, defense attorneys want probation for the fallen, 74-year old Republican legend. They have asked for merciful consideration for the sickly Hastert, citing his health and the family shame he’s suffered.

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Turkey’s Lobbyist Dennis Hastert expected to plead guilty Wednesday in federal court

October 27, 2015 By administrator

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, shown leaving the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after his arraignment on June 9, 2015

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, shown leaving the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after his arraignment on June 9, 2015

Jason MeisnerContact Reporter
Chicago Tribune

Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert had been paying hush money to hide a dark secret for four years by the time federal agents came knocking last December, prosecutors allege.

When the FBI arrived at Hastert’s Plano estate on that snowy Monday morning, he had already been questioned by banks about a series of unusual $50,000 cash withdrawals he had made two years earlier. Still, he tried to keep his secret hidden, telling agents he was trying to store his own money because he didn’t feel safe with the banking system, according to prosecutors.

“Yeah … I kept the cash. That’s what I’m doing,” Hastert was quoted by prosecutors as saying to the agents.

Ten months after that crucial interview, Hastert, 73, is scheduled to walk into federal court in Chicago on Wednesday and plead guilty to a bombshell indictment that alleges he was making the withdrawals as part of an agreement to pay a total of $3.5 million to a longtime acquaintance, identified only as Individual A, to cover up wrongdoing from years ago.

Though the indictment only hints at the alleged wrongdoing, federal law enforcement sources have told the Tribune that Hastert was paying to cover up the sexual abuse of a student when Hastert was a wrestling coach and teacher at Yorkville High School.

Hastert, who has remained free on his own recognizance since pleading not guilty in June, faces one count each of evading currency-reporting requirements and making a false statement to the FBI.

Hastert’s admission of guilt would mark a startling fall from grace for a man who once held the nation’s third-highest political office. But the 8:30 a.m. hearing before U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin could also leave more questions than answers.

Among the mysteries that could well remain unresolved is Individual A’s identity. That has been kept a well-guarded secret despite a concerted attempt by media outlets across the country to confirm who was allegedly receiving the payments from Hastert.

In addition, with such dry charges involved, the written plea agreement with prosecutors might not mention, let alone detail, Hastert’s underlying, allegedly sensational motive for paying Individual A. Prosecutors are required only to present a factual basis for the charges and tell the judge what they intended to prove if the case had gone to trial.

Hastert’s appearance at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse — just his second since the shocking charges were announced in May — is expected to spark a media frenzy and has prompted court officials to set up an overflow courtroom and extra security measures for the anticipated crowds.

Hastert will likely be required to say very little in court. To show for the record he’s making the decision to plead guilty of his own free will, he will be questioned by the judge about his mental state, whether any promises had been made or any other issues that would preclude him from changing his plea. He also will be asked if everything the government alleged in the factual basis is true.

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Turkey’s lobbyist Dennis Hastert has agreed to plead guilty in a case tied to hush money over sexual misconduct claims

October 15, 2015 By administrator

J. Dennis Hastert, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, leaving the federal courthouse in Chicago in June. Credit Christian K. Lee/Associated Press

J. Dennis Hastert, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, leaving the federal courthouse in Chicago in June. Credit Christian K. Lee/Associated Press

Thursday, October 15, 2015 10:39 AM EDT
J. Dennis Hastert, the small-town wrestling coach who rose to political power as the longest-serving Republican speaker of the House, indicated in Federal District Court on Thursday that he would plead guilty as part of a plea agreement in a case where he is accused of skirting banking laws and lying to the federal investigators.
A federal prosecutor told the court that the government expects a written plea agreement to be given to the judge on Monday and have asked for a hearing on Oct. 28, at which Mr. Hastert is expected to change his plea to guilty from not guilty.
It was unclear what charges that Mr. Hastert would plead guilty to and what the sentence may be.

 

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